Here's our look at some of summer's stirring reads, including Claire Mulligan's ghostly new work The Dark, as well as Lisa Moore's Caught, a return to the wilder times of the '70s. Plus, Tao Lin, The Stone Thrower, and tomes for young readers.

	This season’s reads play in light and shadows
	Lisa Moore's Caught is a farewell to youth and a wilder era
	With Taipei, Tao Lin focuses his sense of ennui
	Dirty Wars exposes the dark secrets of America’s clandestine military operations abroad
	The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America is a breathtaking success
	The Stone Thrower's stories are wonderfully twisted